Research Café: Creative Health and Health Inequalities
Join us for a panel discussion on Creative Health and Health Inequalities in Greater Manchester. The relationship between the arts, culture, heritage, health and wellbeing is increasingly referred to as ‘Creative Health’. Our speakers will collectively address the potential role that creative health can play in increasing health equity - with particular reference to Greater Manchester which was the first city region to implement a creative health strategy and where levels of deprivation and health inequalities are the highest in the UK.
Speakers
Professor Stephanie Snow
Stephanie Snow is Professor of Health, History and Policy and Academic Lead for Community Engagement and Involvement at the University of Manchester. Her early research focused on the life and work of John Snow including his role in the introduction of anaesthesia to medicine in the 1840s which produced Operations Without Pain (Palgrave Macmillan) and Blessed Days of Anaesthesia (Oxford University Press). More recently Stephanie has focused on contemporary health and medicine including studies of the global reconfiguration of stroke in the 1990s, the history of black and minority ethnic clinicians in the NHS, and the history of the international quality movement in healthcare which has transformed health, policy and practice at every level. Since 2017 she has led a national programme of work involving volunteers and stakeholders from health and heritage organisations to create the first oral history collection which captures the experiences of patients, staff and communities across the 75+ year history of the UK’s NHS. Voices of Our National Health Service is one of the largest health-focused collections in the world and includes testimonies of the recent Covid-19 pandemic. It is deposited at the British Library in perpetuity – nhs70.org.uk.
Dr Luke Munford
Luke Munford will share his perspective as a health economist on the evidence and evaluation required to demonstrate the economic impact of creative assets in the context of increasing poverty and deprivation in a financially challenged health and care system. Luke was part of the Organisations of Hope project which mapped creative health assets against health inequalities in Greater Manchester.
Dr Rebecca Gordon Nesbitt
Rebecca Gordon Nesbitt who researched and drafted the 2017 parliamentary report from which the term ‘creative health’ derived and the Greater Manchester Creative Health Strategy will share her perspectives on the policy context of creative health and what the opportunities are to develop and strengthen this agenda within integrated care systems and beyond. Rebecca will consider how she thinks creative health might mitigate the social determinants of health.
Register
This event is free and open to anyone working in, or interested in Arts and Health; creative practitioners, experts in public health, arts and health commissioners, GPs, nurses, health researchers, those working in libraries, art galleries, grassroots neighbourhood-based community organisations, theatres, galleries and universities.
Places are limited, and therefore we ask you to ensure you can come before registering. If your plans change and you are no longer able to attend, we ask that you update your registration status.
Getting here
Contact Theatre is based on Oxford Rd next to the University of Manchester campus. To find out more information on accessing the venue please see the Contact Theatre website.
This event is presented by Creative Manchester and Organisations of Hope based at The University of Manchester.
Artwork credit: The Vibes of Greater Manchester by Mahdiyyah
